What Samsung Is Testing in One UI 8.5 for Notifications
Samsung Plans Fix For Galaxy Notification Ad Spam Screenshots shared by tipster Tarun Vats indicate that with One UI 8.5, users can use an option to block apps that send out “excessive ads” through notifications. Samsung’s software, according to the leak, is capable of putting offending apps into a kind of “deep sleep,” essentially severing their ability to wake up in the background or force out fresh alert spam until you’ve opened them again yourself. Another toggle, called “intelligent blocking,” seems to look through what the device deems notification content, in an effort to determine if it should allow or silence the received notification. If true, the logic would run on-device, so that sensitive data never leaves the phone — an important privacy consideration for any system that inspects message content. How Deep Sleep Tries to Stamp Out Notification Spam Samsung’s deep sleep already exists for less-used apps; it pauses background activity and suspends network access to save batt...